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Business News > Mint Authors > Anirban Mahapatra

Anirban Mahapatra

ARTICLES BY ANIRBAN MAHAPATRA

Illustration: Jayachandran

The unsolved global mystery about the bug that’s making children very sick

9 min read . 12 May 2022

South Africa was the first to identify the new variant now known as Omicron. The country has a world-class infectious diseases surveillance system, which allowed quick identification of the variant. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Deadly or not, we still have much to learn about Omicron

9 min read . 02 Dec 2021

One encouraging finding from the Johnson & Johnson trials is that the ability of the vaccine to prevent severe illness is above 80%, even when it’s up against mutant strains. (Reuters)

Are the vaccines effective against mutant Covid variants?

8 min read . 28 Apr 2021

Depending on the pace of infections and reinfections, modified vaccines and booster doses for those who have been vaccinated might be needed to deal with variants. (Photo: Reuters)

Inside the unrelenting rampage of Covid-19 variants

10 min read . 05 Apr 2021

The most effective strategies against vaccine hesitancy include generating awareness about the shots, improving access to the jabs and broadcasting the stories of those who have taken the vaccines. (Photo: Reuters)

How India can fight vaccine hesitancy

9 min read . 01 Feb 2021

The key point is that we now have evidence that targeting the spike protein, which is what these vaccines do, is an effective way to produce neutralizing antibodies. (Photo: AP)

Beginning of the end of the pandemic

9 min read . 18 Nov 2020

An employee at Russia’s biotech company BIOCAD, which is developing a vaccine against covid-19, in Strelna

Inside the race to crack the vaccine

10 min read . 28 May 2020

Srinagar Municipal Corporation employees spray disinfectant in Dal Gate area. (Photo: Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times)

The coronavirus and surface tension

10 min read . 06 Apr 2020